The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 13
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ic wille mid giddum get gecyðan
hu se ælmihtga ealla gesceafta
bryrð mid his bridlum, begð ðider he wile
mid his anwalde, ge endebyrd
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wundorlice wel gemetgað.
Hafað swa geheaðorad heofona wealdend,
utan befangen ealla gesceafta,
geræped mid his racentan, þæt hi
aredian ne magon
þæt hi hi æfre him of aslepen;
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and þeah wuhta gehwilc wrigað toheald
sidra gesceafta, swiðe onhelded
wið þæs gecyndes þe him
cyning engla,
fæder æt frymðe, fæste getiode.
Swa nu þinga gehwilc ðiderweard fundað
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sidra gesceafta, buton sumum englum
and moncynne, þara micles to feola
woroldwuniendra winð wið gecynde.
þeah nu on londe leon gemete,
wynsume wiht wel atemede,
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hire magister miclum lufige,
and eac ondræde dogora gehwelce,
gif hit æfre gesælð þæt
hio æniges
blodes onbyrgeð, ne ðearf beorna nan
wenan þære wyrde þæt hio wel
siððan
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hire taman healde, ac ic tiohhie
þæt hio ðæs niwan taman nauht
ne gehicgge,
ac ðone wildan gewunan wille geþencan
hire eldrena; onginð eorneste
racentan slitan, ryn, grymetigan,
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and ærest abit hire agenes
huses hirde, and hraðe siððan
hæleða gehwilcne þe hio gehentan mæg.
Nele hio forlætan libbendes wuht,
neata ne monna, nimð eall þæt hio fint.
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Swa doð wudufuglas; þeah hi wel sien,
tela atemede, gif hi on treowum weorðað
holte tomiddes, hræðe bioð forsewene
heora lareowas, þe hi lange ær
tydon and temedon. Hi on treowum wilde
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ealdgecynde a forð siððan
willum wuniað, þeah him wolde hwilc
heora lareowa listum beodan
þone ilcan mete þe he hi æror mid
tame getede. Him þa twigu þincað
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emne swa merge þæt hi þæs metes
ne recð,
ðincð him to ðon wynsum þæt
him se weald oncwyð;
þonne hi geherað hleoðrum brægdan
oðre fugelas, hi heora agne
stefne styriað; stunað eal geador
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welwynsum sanc, wudu eallum oncwyð.
Swa bið eallum treowum þe him on æðele
bið
þæt hit on holte hyhst geweaxe;
þeah ðu hwilcne boh byge wið eorðan,
he bið upweardes, swa ðu an forlætst
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widu on willan, went on gecynde.
Swa deð eac sio sunne, þonne hio on sige
weorðeð,
ofer midne dæg, merecondel scyfð
on ofdæle, uncuðne weg
nihtes geneðeð, norð eft and east;
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eldum oteweð, brencð eorðwarum
morgen meretorhtne. Hio ofer moncyn stihð
a upweardes, oð hio eft cymeð
þær hire yfemesð bið eard gecynde.
Swa swa ælc gesceaft ealle mægene
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geond ðas widan woruld wrigað and higað,
ealle mægene eft symle onlyt,
wið his gecyndes cymð to, ðonne hit mæg.
Nis nu ofer eorðan ænegu gesceaft
þe ne wilnie þæt hio wolde cuman
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to þam earde þe hio of becom;
þæt is orsorgnes and ecu rest,
þæt is openlice ælmihti god.
Nis nu ofer eorðan ænegu gesceaft
þe ne hwearfige, swa swa hweol deð,
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on hire selfre. Forðon hio swa hwearfað,
þæt hio eft cume þær hio æror
wæs;
þonne hio ærest sie utan behwerfed,
þonne hio ealles wyrð utan becerred,
hio sceal eft don þæt hio ær dyde,
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and eac wesan þæt hio æror wæs.
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